2025 Impact Report
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Abby’s Legacy Foundation 2025 Impact Report
Dear Friends of Abby’s Legacy Foundation,
As we have stepped fully into 2026, we are honored to share our 2025 Year in Review, our second full year of supporting childhood cancer patients and their families through funding research, support, care, and love.
Because of you, Abby’s Legacy Foundation continues to meet families where they are, both in the hospital and at home, during some of the most difficult moments of their lives. Your generosity provides real, immediate relief, and we believe you deserve to see exactly how your support makes a difference. We are grateful to share the impact we achieved together in 2025.
We are excited to announce that we brought in just under $100,000 of donations this year, and our total direct support provided to patients and families was over $71,000! Just incredible. We were able to keep our operating costs under 4%, meaning 96% of your donation goes directly to patient and family support!
Instead of many more words from me, we wanted to include quotes directly from families that we supported in 2025.
Words That Remind Us Why This Matters
From a hospital social worker, after paying utility bills for an identified family:
“The grandmother was in tears today when I told her and asked that I pass along to you, ‘Thank you from the bottom of my heart.’”
From a parent after rent assistance:
“I’m SO grateful… I can finally breathe knowing I’m still in good standing with my landlord, and I can focus on my daughter. I napped today for the first time in months.”
These moments are our why. By easing the weight of everyday bills and immediate financial stress, we give families the space to breathe, rest, and focus fully on their child’s fight against cancer.
2025 Abby’s Legacy Foundation Year in Review
Group & Community Support: $27,000+
Your generosity helped us support hospitals, camps, clinics, schools, and partner organizations, including:
Special Love Camps (200 campers) – $8,200
BRASS (Sibling) Camp: Kona Ice, movie theater outing, pool outing & lunch
Camp Fantastic (Patient) Camp: silent disco, teen night, and horse supplies
Our Amazing Fighters – $5,118
Dinner and overnight supplies for 45 families
Portsmouth Naval Pediatric Oncology Christmas Party – $1,100
Food & supplies for 100+ patients and families
Abby Furco Memorial Color Run Money Raised & Charity Donations – $12,000
Money collected distributed between the event charities, $4,000 to EDMARC, $4,000 to St. Baldrick’s & $4,000 to Abby’s Legacy Foundation
St. Baldrick’s Foundation – $1,300 total
500 donated CHKD event & $800 donated through an individual fundraiser
Wish List Purchases of Toys & Crafts for CHKD (Children’s Hospital of Kings Daughters, Our Local Children’s Hospital in Norfolk) Oncology Clinic Wish List – $130
Restocked Children’s Band-Aids at Portsmouth Naval Peds Oncology – $105
Legos to Duke Children’s BMT (RowanStrong Initiative) – $191
Hooked on Hope Event Supporter – $250
Meg’s Very Merry Giveback Toys – $155
Love Run Sponsorship (Supporting Local High Schools Student Led Fundraising Efforts) – $550
Knights Against Childhood Cancer – $267
Purchased supplies for this student founded club to promote and assist with service activities.
Provided lemonade stand supplies to assist Knights Against Childhood Cancer raise $1,500+ for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation
Individual Family Support: $44,000+
We provided direct, immediate assistance to families facing financial crisis while caring for a child with cancer.
34 families received monthly bill support
42 families supported during the holidays
3 family outings (Topgolf, Aquarium, Great Wolf Lodge)
1 family assisted with funeral expenses
Types of bill assistance provided:
Rent (11), Electric (7), Gas (3), Water (3), Sewer (3), Insurance (3), Leak repair (1), Groceries (1), Basic needs (2)
These families receiving support are identified through social workers at their hospital or home health. Our guidelines are we help a family once a year, twice ever. Our goal with this assistance, is that it helps bridge the gap during a tough time, allowing them to get things in order to move forward.
Holiday Hope Giving
Amazon Gift Cards – $2,500 (5 families)
Adopted Wes Strong Foundation Holiday Oncology Family – $1,700
EDMARC Christmas – $6,250 ($250 gift card provided to 25 families)
CHKD Basic Needs Gift Cards – $2,500 ($250 gift card provided 10 families through social worker)
EDMARC Christmas Food Basket – $60
2025 Events & Community Engagement
TEAM ABBY 2025 Blood Drive: 50 units collected
$10 for Ten Campaign: From Abby’s RE-birthday to Diagnosis Day - January 28 - February 16, 2025 - over $7,000 raised for ALF to support our programs
Love Run Sponsor: Supported local high school students raising funds for local children’s hospital (Children's Hospital King's Daughters) and making a change.
PAMS St. Baldrick’s: Supported Princess Anne Middle School (PAMS) students crafting their event and raising funds for childhood cancer. In 2025, the 6th year our family has organized this event, we hit the mark of $100,000 raised by the school & community families!!
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: Initiated proclamation for City of Virginia Beach and met with mayor
Abby’s Birthday Wish List: Collected items and funds to purchase items needed for military children in the hospital or clinic, including toys, supplies, and more. The entire wish list was purchased!
2025 Abby Furco Memorial Color Run: What an incredible event and celebration of Abby and life! Founded by Abby’s friends in 2022 & run by students, the 2025 event continued to grow & was a great success! We had an all time high of over 350 participants, 130+ volunteers (over 80 students), and received over $6,000 in local business sponsorships covering all event costs, which allowed every penny collected to be donated. We raised over $12,000 that was split between event charities Abby's Legacy Foundation, EDMARC Pediatric Home Health & Hospice and St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
Knights Against Childhood Cancer: Provided funds to launch and support activities of this student led group at our local high school, led by childhood cancer fighter and childhood cancer sibling. Super special.
Holiday Hope December Giving Program: We expanded our support through the holidays through CHKD and EDMARC social work, and Wes Strong Foundation. Providing 42 families support through gifts, food, and gift cards for holiday shopping & basic needs totaling over $13,000.
How You Can Make a Difference
We couldn’t achieve any of this without your support, THANK YOU to all of our donors, volunteers and supporters!
Please donate when you can. If you'd like a 2026 Spread the Love heart bracelet - donate today at abbyslegacyfoundation.org/giving
Interested in joining our monthly giving program, the Campfire Circle? Simply visit www.abbyslegacyfoundation.org/giving/#campfirecircle
Follow us on Instagram at @abbyslegacyfoundation and stay tuned for a public Facebook page coming soon! We are currently on Facebook as a private group under "Abby’s Legacy Foundation."
Your continued support ensures families never have to choose between keeping the lights on and being by their child’s bedside.
Thank you for believing in our mission and assisting families when they need it most.
With love and Abby forever in our hearts,
Patty & Joe Furco
and the Abby’s Legacy Foundation team
